Prevention of hazardous drinking.

Binge drinking: all too prevalent and hazardous.

Hazardous drinking in elite New Zealand sportspeople.

AIMS To examine the link between hazardous drinking and level of sport participation in New Zealand. METHODS Sports science and general university students (n = 427) completed a sporting profile questionnaire that included the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). RESULTS Elite sportspeople (both provincial and international/country level) reported higher rates of hazardous dri...

Booze barns: fuelling hazardous drinking in Australia?

Latest data confirm that drinking by Australians persists as a public health problem, despite a plateauing of consumption levels in recent years. In 2011–12, 19.5% of adults exceeded the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guidelines (http:// www.nhmrc.gov.au/your-health/alcohol-guidelines, verified 5 August 2013) considered to be risky to their lifetime health by consuming mor...

Hazardous drinking in New Zealand sportspeople: level of sporting participation and drinking motives.

AIMS To examine the relationship between athlete drinking motives and hazardous drinking across differing levels of sporting participation (club vs elite-provincial vs elite-international). METHODS Data from 1214 New Zealand sportspeople was collected. We assessed hazardous drinking with the WHO's AUDIT questionnaire and sportspeople's psychosocial reasons for drinking with the ADS. Level of ...

Prevention of Drinking and Driving

T crashes are the leading drivers in single­vehicle fatal crashes are disproportionately involved in cause of death in the United with those of drivers stopped at ran­ alcohol­related traffic deaths. Approx­ States for persons ages 1 to 34 dom in nationwide surveys indicates imately 3 in 5 Americans will be in­ (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety that each 0.02­percent increase in BAC volve...